The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-29

ricultural or cattle season. Newcomers in Texas
are liable to forget that disastrous years only
occur occasionally and that in three favorable
seasons the profits will be large enough to stand
one bad season in three. They NAV hear of all
this after they sell but the old settler is not
Offering information that only be bought
with experience until it is valuable as a mourn
full reflection.
The Iron Mountain railroad has station
called Malvern. 1t is forty-four miles south of
Little Rock. As his car pulls into Malvern Mr..
Gould sees on a narrow gauge railroad that also
has n station there an engine with diamond
shaped headlight The narrow-eange road runs
from Malvern to Hot Springs. Mr.. Gould has
no interest in it. but he knows it was built and
is owned-every spike in it-by man who re-
ceived his first start in life from the same man
who placed him on his feet The Hot Springs
railroad is owned by Diamond joe Reynolds.
who was started in business many years ago by
Zadock Pratt, OF the town of Prattsvllie, Greene
county. New York, when the young man lived In
Sullivan county, right across the line OF Della.
ware county, Pennsylvania. where Jay Gould
was enabled by Mr.. Pratt to tan hides with oak
and hemlock bark-not after the fashion OF
Wall street. Reynolds and Gould were assisted
by, Mr. Pratt about the same time. Rey-
nolds is not as wealthy to-day Mr..
Gould, but he owns all the money he
wants, and Mr. GoulG has often said it did not
need fifty millions to secure contentment.
Diamond Joe" Reynolds is rich man. and he
spends much OF his time between Chicago and
Hot Springs On his first visit to Hot Springs
he was compelled to stage it from Malvern.
The ride disguised him much the Springs
delighted him. He found man who had OBJ
tanned charter for railroad from Malvern to
the Springs and who had no money. The charter
and some money changed hands. Reynolds built
the railroad and owns it. rolling stock and all.
The road is twenty-four miles long. He made
his money in wheat but not in Sullivan county.
After getting start there he went West, and
shipped wheat from Wisconsin to Chicago. He
shipped it in sacks. and marked the sacks with
diamond and inclosed in it the letters u. o." 1t
was from this circumstance, because the sacks
and trade mark became widely known, that he
obtained the sobriauet of Diamond joe" and
not as those who have only heard OF him think,
from a penchant for gems, for Mr.. Reynolds is
modest well as rich.
Mr.. Gould travels like rocket while inspect
ing his roads. In this way he gets q certain
amount Of exercise. for, travellers know. 8.
heavy train drawn at the rate of fifty miles an
hour will make little fuss in comparison with the
antics of single car tackled to an engine max
ing the same rate. Mr.. Gould often travels in
the Convoy at fftv-mile gait. and during such
a trip he has been known to change seats-from
one side of the car to the other-not Of his own
volition, but without changing countenance. So
long as Superintendent Kerrlgan keeps his hand
off the bell-rope Mr. Gould makes no remon-
STRANGE, but accepts his shaking without a
grumb:e. He changed engineers on one of his
recent trips without knowing it. The engineer
had been running slowly for reasons of his own,
in spite of numerous pulls at the bell-cord.
When, however, he discovered that dinner was
under way, he pulled the throttle open, and the
locomotive darted ahead suddenly as if going
through space. The jar cleaned the table like q
flash. At the next station the engineer was pro-
noted to freight train. He probably blames
Mr. Gould for the change, yet Mr.. Gould will
only know of it when he reads it in the Times.